Teen charged with attacking 78-year-old woman

A teenager charged with attacking an elderly woman on a Brooklyn subway platform has claimed the 78-year-old victim punched first.

Jazmine Watson, 16, and an unidentified 15-year-old are accused of beating Norma Trotman after Trotman asked one of the girls to remove her feet from a seat on a Manhattan-bound C train.

Police say they have video showing the two girls jumping Trotman after she got off at the Franklin Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant Thursday afternoon.

But an unapolegetic Watson told police that the victim – born in 1938 – started it, prosecutors said. "The defendant claims the juvenile only punched the complainant after the complainant punched the juvenile,” said a prosecutor at Watson’s Saturday night arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Watson fought back tears as Judge John Hecht released her without bail and ordered her to stay away from Trotman.

She faces several charges of felony assault.

The 15-year-old alleged attacker is not being tried as an adult, and has not yet been arraigned.